Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#6
AI visibility: Grade A
84
SEO health: Latest audit
84
Visits
76.7M
per month, estimated
Keywords
1.6M
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
76.7M organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
144 lines AI engines can read
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microsoft.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Microsoft Corporation (Software & Internet) is ranked #6 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 10, up 1 place from #7 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 76.7 million visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 1.6 million ranking keywords.
- Its organic traffic is down 2% between May 2025 and April 2026.
- Its AI visibility score is 84 out of 100 (grade A), with a published llms.txt of 144 lines.
- We hold 1,000 backlinks for it, and the sample we analysed comes from 377 referring domains, 100% of the links dofollow.
- Its last technical audit scored 84/100, with "Implement a descriptive meta description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #6 | ▲ 1 |
| July 2026 | #7 | ▼ 1 |
| June 2026 | #6 | — |
| May 2026 | #6 | — |
| April 2026 | #6 | ▲ 13 |
| March 2026 | #19 | ▲ 8 |
| February 2026 | #27 | — |
What this company does
Microsoft started out making operating systems and quickly became the standard for personal computers around the world. Over the decades it expanded into productivity tools that most offices still rely on every day. The company now runs one of the largest cloud platforms with Azure serving businesses of every size. It also builds hardware like Surface laptops and Xbox consoles to round out its ecosystem. Microsoft se…
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of microsoft.com is moderately strong, with a high performance score of 90/100 and excellent accessibility at 100/100. However, there are critical issues such as a missing meta description, lack of H1 tags, and low best practices score that need immediate attention to enhance visibility and user…
microsoft.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send microsoft.com an estimated 76.7 million visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 76.7 million visits from unpaid results. Paid search contributes only about 19,700 visits a month. Spread across 1.6 million ranking keywords, that averages roughly 47 organic visits per keyword. Between May 2025 and April 2026, monthly organic visits went from 85.3 million to 83.4 million (-2%). The strongest month was November 2025 at 85.7 million, and the weakest September 2025 at 75.9 million. In April 2026 organic visits fell 2% on March 2026. 3 of the 11 month-on-month changes shown were increases. Over the same period its ranking keywords shrank from 4.5 million to 1.7 million. Paid visits peaked in February 2026 at about 214,500.
Monthly visits
76.7M
Across 12 months
Change
-2%
First to last month shown
Organic visits
76.7M
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
19.7K
0.03% of its search traffic
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
| Month | Organic visits | vs. prior month | Paid visits | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 83,366,413 | -2% | 6,178 | 1,693,160 |
| March 2026 | 84,667,576 | +8% | 6,489 | 2,569,967 |
| February 2026 | 78,748,487 | -1% | 214,475 | 3,554,238 |
| January 2026 | 79,509,377 | -5% | 214,265 | 3,873,521 |
| December 2025 | 83,689,644 | -2% | 196,039 | 4,099,980 |
| November 2025 | 85,716,892 | +7% | 497 | 4,022,422 |
| October 2025 | 80,387,505 | +6% | 421 | 3,797,277 |
| September 2025 | 75,944,164 | -2% | 8,706 | 3,877,361 |
| August 2025 | 77,889,695 | -6% | 10,656 | 4,028,666 |
| July 2025 | 82,829,768 | -3% | 6,732 | 4,295,269 |
| June 2025 | 85,087,141 | 0% | 36,909 | 4,537,732 |
| May 2025 | 85,331,295 | — | 53,027 | 4,514,912 |
microsoft.com Traffic by Country
A live-web estimate — not a measurement — puts Microsoft Corporation's largest markets as United States (52%) and Other countries (48%). In the backlink sample we hold, the most linking sites are hosted in United States (31% of links), followed by IO (13%).
Top customer markets
AI estimate · live webWe only measure visitor geography for domains whose analytics are connected to us. For everyone else this is read live from the web and shown as an estimate — never mixed in with the measured numbers.
- United States52%
- Other countries48%
Who buys: Consumers, businesses, developers, and public-sector organizations.
Sources: stocklight.com · ia801602.us.archive.org · cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com
Where its backlinks come from
1.0K link sampleMeasured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
- United States25731%
- IO11013%
- Worldwide10913%
- India547%
- South Korea294%
- Germany273%
microsoft.com AI Visibility
microsoft.com scores 84 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade A. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt and Crawlability. The biggest gap is Company profile, at 16 of 25 points (5/8 core fields), worth 9 points if closed. It also loses points on Structured data (0/5) and SEO health (18/20).
Grade A
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
5/8 core fields
92/100
robots ✓ · sitemap ✓
Not detected
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Microsoft is highly visible in AI answers about software, cloud, and enterprise technology because it is a dominant brand in productivity software, cloud infrastructure, and AI partnerships.
microsoft.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on microsoft.com runs to 144 lines (6,311 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in September 2026. It introduces the site as "Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps". It tells AI engines the business works in Software & Internet; AI, Data & Automation; and Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps. It describes 4 products, including Microsoft 365, Azure and Windows. Services it lists include Microsoft Support, Azure Consulting and Enterprise Deployment. Technologies it mentions include Cloud platforms, AI tools and Enterprise software. The keywords it claims start with "microsoft", "office", "365" and "azure". It gives the company type as Public.
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
144
In the file
Size
6.3K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated Sep 1, 2026
What the file says
# Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps ## About Microsoft offers a wide range of products and services that people and companies rely on every day. From productivity tools like Microsoft 365 and Teams to cloud infrastructure through Azure, the company focuses on making technology accessible and useful. Shoppers can also find hardware such as Surface devices along with gaming options on Xbox and the familiar Windows operating system. Support is available whether someone is setting things up at home or rolling out solutions across a large organization. Copilot brings AI features into everyday apps to help users work faster and smarter. The overall approach keeps things practical so both individuals and teams get real value without unnecessary complexity. Over the years Microsoft has built a reputation for reliable software that scales from personal use to enterprise needs. Windows remains a core part of many computers while Azure powers cloud workloads for businesses around the world. Gaming enthusiasts turn to Xbox for entertainment and Surface tablets serve professionals who want portable computing power. Customer service covers everything from basic setup questions to advanced deployment help. The product lineup continues to grow with new AI capabilities added regularly. **Areas of Work:** Software & Internet, AI, Data & Automation, Cloud, Infrastruc
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Microsoft 365Subscription
- AzureUsage based
- WindowsLicense
- XboxHardware and subscription
Services it tells AI about
- Microsoft SupportIncluded or paid plans
- Azure ConsultingProject based
- Enterprise DeploymentCustom
Competitors it names
Company type
Public
microsoft.com Organic Keywords
Google lists microsoft.com for about 1.6 million keywords, which together bring an estimated 76.7 million organic visits a month. Of the keywords shown here, "0365 login" has the most demand — about 368,000 searches a month, with microsoft.com at position 1. All 5 rank first in Google. Advertisers pay the most for "0ffice 365 login", at about $0.91 a click. They are answered by 2 different pages on the site.
Ranking keywords
1.6M
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
76.7M
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
| Keyword | Position | Volume | CPC | Ranking page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0365 login | 1 | 368.0K | $0.10 | /en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/log-in |
| 0365 sign in | 1 | 1.9K | $0.03 | /en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/log-in |
| 0ffice 365 login | 1 | 1.3K | $0.91 | /en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/log-in |
| 0365 admin | 1 | 480 | — | /en-us/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-administration |
| 0365 administrator | 1 | 480 | — | /en-us/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-administration |
The top 5 of 6.4M keywords we hold for this domain.
What it ranks for
microsoft.com Backlink Analytics
We hold 1,000 backlinks pointing to microsoft.com; the 1,000-link sample analysed below comes from 377 different sites. Every sampled link is dofollow, so all of them pass ranking authority. The strongest referring site in the sample is support.google.com (authority 1000), with 30 links, hosted in United States. The latest crawl recorded 81 new and 0 lost links.
Backlinks
1.0K
Live links on file
Referring domains
377
Unique sites in the sample
Dofollow
100%
Passing authority
New / lost
81 / 0
In the latest crawl
Derived from a 1.0K-link sample
Strongest referring domains
| Domain | Authority | Links | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| support.google.com | 1000 | 30 | United States |
| www.iubenda.com | 1000 | 15 | United States |
| digital.mondadori.it | 1000 | 1 | Italy |
| www.apple.com | 1000 | 1 | United States |
| play.google.com | 1000 | 1 | Worldwide |
| developer.linkedin.com | 992 | 1 | Worldwide |
| web.whatsapp.com | 937 | 47 | India |
| github.com | 894 | 9 | United States |
Links by country
- United States25731%
- IO11013%
- Worldwide10913%
- India547%
- South Korea294%
- Germany273%
microsoft.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of microsoft.com scored 84 out of 100 overall. All 3 sub-scores are 90 or above. The audit makes 12 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Excellent
Performance
Excellent
Accessibility
Excellent
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement a descriptive meta description
- CriticalAdd H1 tags to key pages
- HighOptimize images with alt text
- HighAdd viewport meta tag
8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
microsoft.com Competitors and Alternatives
Microsoft Corporation's company profile names apple.com, google.com, amazon.com and oracle.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds ibm.com and salesforce.com. A live-web read also points to Amazon Web Services. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are cloudflare.com, facebook.com, gstatic.com and googleapis.com.
Some names read live from the web
microsoft.com Company Profile
Microsoft started out making operating systems and quickly became the standard for personal computers around the world. Over the decades it expanded into productivity tools that most offices still rely on every day. The company now runs one of the largest cloud platforms with Azure serving businesses of every size. It also builds hardware like Surface laptops and Xbox consoles to round out its ecosystem. Microsoft se…
Founded in 1975 (about 51 years ago), Microsoft Corporation is based in Redmond, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 201 and 1,000 employees. Its profile files it under Software & Internet, with further tags for AI, Data & Automation; Cloud Computing; and Operating Systems. A live-web read lists its main offerings as Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, LinkedIn and Xbox, and associates it with cloud computing, AI, productivity software, enterprise software, operating systems and gaming. Reported revenue is '$245B (2024)', and total funding is listed at Public. Its tagline reads: "American multinational technology company known for Windows, Office and Azure".
Microsoft develops software, cloud services, devices, and AI tools for consumers, businesses, and governments worldwide. Its products support productivity, computing, collaboration, gaming, and enterprise infrastructure across a broad range of industries.
- Sector
- Software & Internet
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Founded
- 1975
- Employees
- 201-1000
- Revenue
- '$245B (2024)'
- Funding
- Public
Live-web sources:stocklight.comia801602.us.archive.orgcdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.comlinkedin.com
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